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Originally Posted by dc_dux
ace....let me ask you a simple question.
Do you think the "who" that have declared war a holy war against the US have increased in numbers as a result of the Bush "anti-terrorism" policy and practices since 9/11,
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Yes.
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including holding Muslims at gitmo indefinitely without charges or access to counsel, allegations of torture and rendition of other Muslims, invasion of a sovereign Muslim country and the resulting loss of the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Muslim women and children, opposition to the democratically elected Hamas government in Gaza......
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I don't know how many times I have said this but I think we are at war, I believe we are in a war that we did not start. I belive we are at war with an enemy that is unwilling to negotiate a peaceful resolution.
The war as a given - people will choose a side.
Some will fight with us, people who ordinarily would not be our friend but believe we have a common cause with them.
Some will fight against us, people who ordinarily would not take arms against us. They may believe their interests are more aligned with our enemy.
I think these conditions are a part of the nature of war. I don't think it changes the "rightness" or "wrongness" of the underlying issues regarding the war.
Using the Civil War as an example - their were many in the Confederacy who took arms against the Union who would not have done so under any other condition accept for the fact that in their belief the Union inappropriately declared war against their way of life. Just the fact that there was a declared war - increased the numbers of people willing to fight and die in the war. there were many reasons why people fought. In many cases individual reasons were very different than the "official" reasons stated by government leaders. There are similarities with the war against terror and our invasion/occupation of Iraq. Please spare me the - how dare I compare Iraq to the Civil War. I know they are different.